Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine

Ecosystem service gradients at protected area borders reveal multiple patterns and prevalent management conflicts

Protected areas cannot halt biodiversity loss in isolation; integrating them with surrounding human-dominated landscapes is critical. However, this integration is challenged by substantial landscape heterogeneity at protected area borders, making it difficult to determine cross-b...

Should I stay or should I go? Frog breeding responses to drought events and alien predators

Abstract Climate change is a major driver of biodiversity loss worldwide, increasingly acting through extreme climatic events such as droughts. Beyond their direct impacts on habitat availability, droughts can also generate indirect effects by altering ecological interactions, su...

Widespread thermophilization but weak link to climate warming in Europe’s summit plant communities

Abstract Recent changes in alpine vegetation are often attributed to climate warming, particularly community composition shifts towards more warmth-associated species, or thermophilization. Here we assess the link between thermophilization and warming across 53 European mountain...

Macroevolutionary dynamics of Androsace s.l . (Primulaceae) across the Northern Hemisphere

Abstract Mountain regions of the Northern Hemisphere harbor exceptional biodiversity, yet the processes underlying species diversification and migration among these regions remain poorly understood. This study investigates the macroevolutionary dynamics of Androsace s.l ., a genu...